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We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart's Enterprise Solutions team partners with North America's largest grocery and retail chains to power their digital commerce through StorefrontPro, FulfillmentPro, CarrotAds, and adjacent software products. We're seeking a Senior Director, Enterprise Delivery and Growth to serve as the leader for this software portfolio — accountable for the full retailer experience from first implementation through ongoing growth and renewal. In this highly visible, impact-driven role, you will lead three Director-led organizations — Retailer Delivery (implementations), Enterprise Architecture & Engineering (solutions architecture, technical account management, and forward-deployed engineering), and Retailer Success (post-live growth and expansion) — and own the outcomes that matter: time-to-live, implementation quality and CSAT, adoption velocity, net revenu

We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Overview Instacart's Enterprise Solutions team partners with North America's largest grocery and retail chains to power their digital commerce through StorefrontPro, FulfillmentPro, CarrotAds, and adjacent software products. We're seeking a Senior Director, Enterprise Delivery and Growth to serve as the leader for this software portfolio — accountable for the full retailer experience from first implementation through ongoing growth and renewal. In this highly visible, impact-driven role, you will lead three Director-led organizations — Retailer Delivery (implementations), Enterprise Architecture & Engineering (solutions architecture, technical account management, and forward-deployed engineering), and Retailer Success (post-live growth and expansion) — and own the outcomes that matter: time-to-live, implementation quality and CSAT, adoption velocity, net revenu

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As a Staff Engineer on the FinHub - Ledger team within the Platform group, you'll own the architectural direction of Coinbase's core ledgering systems that process billions of transactions. This team builds the foundational infrastructure that powers financial accuracy and reliability across the company. You'll make critical technical decisions, drive platform improvements, and lead high-impact cross-functional projects that define how we build scalable, highly available systems at Coinbase's growing scale. What you’ll do: Architect and build foundational backend systems with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability across ledgering and transaction processing infrastructure Drive strategic technical direction for complex, cross-team initiatives spanning engineering, product, and finance Establish and evolve platform best practices, frameworks, and architectural standards that raise the quality bar for the broader engineering organization Provide deep technical mentorship, guide design decisions, and develop senior engineers across the team Shape the team's technical roadmap by collaborating with engineering leadership to identify high-leverage investments and anticipate scaling bottlenecks Embed AI into engineering and operational practices to drive system improvements and workflow efficiency Required skills and experience: 8+ years building and ope

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team The Merchant Experience team builds the UI operating system and core experiences that power decades of growth for millions of businesses globally, enabling Stripe to be the business SaaS solution of choice for next-gen companies. We own the foundational platforms and product surfaces that merchants interact with every day—from the Stripe Dashboard to the frameworks and tooling that hundreds of Stripe engineers use to build world-class user interfaces. We're at an inflection point. AI is fundamentally changing how users interact with software, and we believe Stripe is uniquely positioned to reimagine what a merchant experience looks like in an AI-native world. At the same time, we're raising the bar on the quality and performance of everything we ship—because the millions of businesses that depend on Stripe deserve an experience that is fast, reliable, and crafted with care. What you'll do As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Merchant Experience team, you'll be a technical leader responsible for shaping the next generation of how Stripe merchants interact with our products. You'll drive a step-function improvement in the quality and performance of our core surfaces, and help define what AI-powered merchant experiences look like at Stripe. Responsibilities Define technical strategy for merchant-facing experiences across Stripe, with a focus on quality, performance, and the integration of AI into core user workflows Lead the design and delivery of

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. As a Principal Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will be a technical anchor — setting direction, solving the hardest engineering problems, and elevating the entire team. You will work at the intersection of systems design, long-term architecture, and real-world engineering execution. In this specific role, you will lead the evolution of our declarative data pipelines, focusing on streaming ingestion and transformations. What You'll Do Drive the technical strategy and architecture for key Data Platform initiatives, focusing heavily on real-time data movement and incremental processing. Lead design reviews and set engineering standards across teams. Identify and resolve high-impact technical challenges and systemic bottlenecks to reduce latency and improve the efficiency of dynamic tables at cloud scale. Mentor and grow senior engineers; raise the engineering bar. Partner closely with product and infrastructure leadership on roadmap and direction. Continuous hands-on technical deliverables in the most critical areas. What We're Looking For 14+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems. Demonstrated track record of defining and delivering platform-scale technical initiatives. Expert-level knowledge of streaming and/or batch data

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Staff Software Engineer - External Observability Platform Location: Bellevue, WA (Hybrid: 3 days/week in-office) Team: Infrastructure & Observability Platform Engineering About the Role Snowflake’s Data Cloud processes exabytes of data across multi-cloud global environments every day. Delivering seamless reliability and real-time visibility to thousands of global enterprise customers requires an Observability Platform built on hyper-scalable backend distributed systems. We are seeking a Staff / Lead Software Engineer to architect, design, and scale our External Observability Platform . In this role, you will lead the technical strategy for customer-facing telemetry, system metrics, audit logs, distributed tracing, and actionable operational insights. You will build high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure capable of ingesting, processing, and serving petabytes of telemetry data with strict SLA guarantees. You will join a team of world-class engineers in our Bellevue, WA office. To be successful, you must be deeply technical, capable of leading complex cross-functional architecture initiatives, and skilled at mentoring senior engineers while holding your own with the brightest technical minds in the industry. Key Responsibilities Architect & Scale Distributed Infr

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Come join us in this super high impact role as we build the future of Snowflake! Snowsight is the perfect place for data professionals to do their best work, and in this role you'll be making it even better. You'll join a wildly talented, multi-disciplinary team to not only reimagine existing Snowsight experiences, but also to extend it to exciting new surfaces and unlock high value business opportunities. Acting as a startup within Snowflake, together we'll iterate quickly, ship daily, and experiment continuously. This is a phenomenal opportunity to revolutionize how people across the world turn data into knowledge, and knowledge into opportunities. As a senior technical leader on this team, you'll have exceptional impact, both shaping and shipping amazing experiences — and helping the engineers around you do the very best work of their careers. YOU WILL: Act as a technical leader and deep domain expert across the stack, owning an area of the product end-to-end with an eye toward service health, quality, and customer experience. Lead large, cross-team projects from architecture through delivery — identifying opportunities, making the right trade-offs in the context of overall company goals, and driving them to completion. Leverage agentic AI to accelerate your work (and th

Lithic is the modern card issuing and processing platform empowering ambitious financial companies to build the future of payments. Our infrastructure powers card programs for 100+ innovative clients, from fintechs reimagining credit and digital banking to platforms transforming disbursements and spend management. Companies like Mercury, Flex, and Novo rely on Lithic's developer-friendly APIs, direct network connections, and flawless reconciliation to launch and scale card programs in weeks, not years. We're building a future where access to better financial products materially improves people's lives, free from the constraints of 30-year-old mainframes and legacy processors. We're proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Stripes, and Mastercard, along with many others. We're a team of 170+ across 26 states and 7 countries, headquartered in New York City. We are hiring for our Treasury team Software Engineers at various levels (II and Senior) who are curious and willing to dive deep and understand our technology and domain in order to solve interesting and hard problems.The Treasury team maintains and builds the backend services that manage the flow of funds between Lithic and third parties. This includes our ledger, ACH and wire infrastructure, and associated reconciliation. The systems we maintain have high standards of reliability and correctness. You will become an expert in the card payments space. The Treasury team primarily uses Python for their tech stack. What You'll Do: Ensure high reliability and correctness for Lithic’s ledger and orchestrated funds flows Develop new features to better serve Lithic customers Ensure that the team is delivering reliable, secure, and scalable code with minimal tech debt Own initiatives from planning to launch, keeping stakeholders informed and aligned along the way Lead efforts to improve systems and processes wit

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Every day, millions of riders and drivers depend on Lyft to get where they're going. When something goes wrong along the way, they expect us to make it right — quickly, clearly, and without friction. How fast and how well we resolve those moments shapes whether people keep choosing Lyft. The Self-Serve Intelligence team, within the Safety & Customer Care org, is composed of engineers building the AI-powered systems that do exactly that: resolving rider and driver suboptimal experiences without agent involvement through AI Assist (e.g. AI Agents), automations, and self-serve workflows. Our goal is to make getting help feel effortless. We design and build backend services, APIs, and GenAI-powered products that combine robust engineering with applied AI to deliver reliable, scalable self-serve experiences. We are looking for a highly motivated, collaborative, team-focused and technically strong Software Engineer to join our Self-Serve Intelligence team. As a member of this team, you will build the services and AI-powered products that resolve customer issues autonomously. Every day, you'll partner with machine learning engineers, product, design, data science, and operations on high-impact projects — from shipping new AI Agent capabilities, to building the evaluation pipelines that keep their quality high, to improving the backend services underneath them. You'll bring strong engineering instincts, genuine curiosity about applied AI, and a willingness to work through ambiguity in a space that changes month to month. Responsibilities: Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code Partner with senior engineers to design, build, and ship backend services and GenAI-powered products (e.g. AI Agents) that resolve rider and driver suboptimal experiences Independently lead tasks fro

Who we are At Twilio, we’re shaping the future of communications, all from the comfort of our homes. We deliver innovative solutions to hundreds of thousands of businesses and empower millions of developers worldwide to craft personalized customer experiences. Our dedication to remote-first work , and strong culture of connection and global inclusion means that no matter your location, you’re part of a vibrant team with diverse experiences making a global impact each day. As we continue to revolutionize how the world interacts, we’re acquiring new skills and experiences that make work feel truly rewarding. Your career at Twilio is in your hands. . Hiring and how we work We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help make our hiring process efficient. That said, every hiring decision is made by real Twilions! Also, while we are a remote-first company, you may be asked to report in person on an ad-hoc basis for team gatherings, functional off-sites or customer meetings. . See yourself at Twilio Join the team as Twilio’s next Software Architect, (L6). About the job This position is needed to define and drive architectural vision, strategy, and alignment across multiple products and domains at company scale. As a senior-most technical leader, you’ll set long-term technical vision, establish architectural guardrails, and ensure coherence across distributed systems and platforms. You will drive cross-organizational initiatives, solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges, and elevate the technical standard for Twilio company-wide. Responsibilities In this role, you'll: Set and communicate long-term architectural vision, aligning teams and leadership across Twilio. Lead cross-product architecture reviews, standardize engineering practices, and drive foundational technical investments. Solve the most complex, ambiguous technical challenges at platform and company-wide scale. Mentor and guide principal and staff engineers, fostering a culture

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. Lyft is a global company that connects people to transportation to change the way we live and get around our communities. Our drivers and passengers entrust Lyft with their personal information and travel details to get where they are going and expect us to keep that data safe. Lyft's Privacy team is composed of engineers and analysts dedicated to ensuring appropriate data protections are applied to our drivers' and passengers' data. Our goal is to make privacy the default setting for our internal engineers and our customers. We help design architectures, build a scalable data platform, and define policies to reduce the exposure of user data and ensure appropriate privacy and security protections are applied across the company. We are looking for a highly motivated, collaborative, team-focused and technically strong Software Engineer to join our Privacy team. As a member of this team, you will design and build systems that make privacy the default at Lyft. Every day, you'll partner with engineering, product, legal, and compliance stakeholders on high-impact projects — from building data redaction pipelines to enabling users to exercise their privacy rights to deploying data management systems across a diverse set of Lyft services. You'll bring strong engineering instincts, a passion for privacy, and the ability to lead large projects from idea to execution. Responsibilities: Write well-crafted, well-tested, readable, and maintainable code Promote appropriate tech and engineering best practices Partner with teams across Lyft on organizational privacy initiatives Partner with senior engineers to design, build, and maintain systems that enhance privacy across the organization Independently lead tasks from idea to execution Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge Parti

About the Team The Privacy Engineering team builds the systems and technical foundations that govern how user data is understood, retained, accessed, and used across OpenAI. We partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal to translate policy and trust commitments into durable architecture and enforceable controls. Our work spans data inventory and mapping, classification and lineage, retention and deletion, access governance, purpose and usage controls, auditability, and lifecycle automation. We aim to make policy-aligned data handling the default while giving teams clear, reliable primitives for building and operating products at scale. About the Role We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to drive the architecture and execution of user data governance across OpenAI. You will define technical direction, build shared platforms and controls, and lead cross-functional programs that make data flows discoverable, policies enforceable, and ownership explicit. This role is well suited to a senior engineer who can move between deep systems design and organization-wide influence, turn ambiguous requirements into pragmatic roadmaps, and operate high-trust systems end to end. This position is based in San Francisco. Relocation assistance is available. In this role, you will: Set the technical strategy and architecture for user data governance across data mapping, classification, lineage, retention, deletion, access, and permitted usage. Design and build shared services, APIs, metadata systems, and policy-enforcement mechanisms that make governance controls consistent, scalable, and auditable. Establish reliable inventories of user data, system ownership, data flows, and policy applicability across products, infrastructure, analytics, and research systems. Partner with Product, Data, Infrastructure, Security, and Legal leaders to define decision rights, translate requirements into controls, and drive adoption across teams. Own governance systems

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Our Merchants organization focuses on onboarding and activation, catalog quality and health, merchant presence (including creator/UGC and trust signals), and ads upsell—helping merchants build healthy catalogs, reach the right audiences, and unlock clear paths to growth. In this role, you’ll lead high-impact engineering at the intersection of commerce platforms, catalog systems, and AI-native experiences. This includes applying ML, AI-assisted workflows, and GenAI where appropriate to improve metadata quality, merchant tooling, and operational efficiency. You’ll partner closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, and other senior engineers to deliver systems with measurable business and user impact. What you’ll do: Own end-to-end technical delivery for cross-team initiatives—from problem framing and technical stra

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Pinterest helps more than 600 million people discover new ideas to help design their life. Our users come to Pinterest to explore ideas and run more than 80 billion search queries every month. Many of these queries represent exploratory search and shopping intent and are broad, which means that the search system should be able to deeply understand this intent, then help people explore content, personalize results, harness visual and multimodal signals effectively, and show the most engaging content up front. All of this means that Pinterest Search presents a unique challenge quite unlike other search systems and the opportunity to innovate on a product that only Pinterest can build. We are looking for an exceptional Senior Staff Engineer to lead Search’s product and front-end strategy across iOS and other platforms such as Android and Web, spann

Tenstorrent is leading the industry on cutting-edge AI technology, revolutionizing performance expectations, ease of use, and cost efficiency. With AI redefining the computing paradigm, solutions must evolve to unify innovations in software models, compilers, platforms, networking, and semiconductors. Our diverse team of technologists have developed a high performance RISC-V CPU from scratch, and share a passion for AI and a deep desire to build the best AI platform possible. We value collaboration, curiosity, and a commitment to solving hard problems. We are growing our team and looking for contributors of all seniorities. We are looking for a highly technical Senior Staff/Principal Engineer to lead the porting and enablement of critical AI workloads. You will be a primary driver in migrating compute workloads to RISC-V architectures, ensuring our hardware is optimized for real-world application performance. The ideal candidate has a strong background in DevOps, workload porting, or application enablement . While this is an individual contributor role at its core, you will have the opportunity to grow and lead a small, specialized team over time as our workload migration efforts scale. This role is remote, based in the United States or Australia. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. During the interview process, candidates will be assessed for the appropriate level, and offers will align with that level, which may differ from the one in this posting. Who You Are A Technical Catalyst: You thrive on the challenge of driving AI hardware porting to RISC-V and making complex software stacks run efficiently on new hardware. Systems Expert: You possess deep knowledge of system software, compilers, or low-level OS internals. You are an expert in ARM or x86 environments and are ready to apply those skills to the RISC-V frontier. A Project Driver: You have the technical authority to lead the implementation of a compute migration to RISC-V through